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Now a' is done that men can do,

And a' is done in vain. A' for our Rightfu' King.

He turn'd him right and round about

Upon the Irish shore,

And gae his bridle reins a shake,
With, "Adieu for evermore, my dear,
And adieu for evermore." 1

Ibid.

WILLIAM PITT. 1759-1806.

Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.2 Speech on the India Bill, November, 1783.

Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all

That shared its shelter perish in its fall.

The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. No. xxxvi.

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1 Under the impression that this stanza is ancient, Scott has made very free use of it, first in "Rokeby" (1813), and then in the "Monastery " (1816). In "Rokeby" he thus introduces the verse:

He turn'd his charger as he spake,

Upon the river shore,

He gave his bridle reins a shake,

Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love,
And adieu for evermore."

2 See Milton, page 232.

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Three stories high, long, dull, and old,
As great lords' stories often are.

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.

Ibid.

Lodgings for Single Gentlemen.

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'Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law

To a very magnificent three-tailed Bashaw!

I had a soul above buttons.

Blue Beard. Act ii. Sc. 5.

Sylvester Daggerwood, or New Hay at the Old Market. Sc. 1.

Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk,
Sipped brandy and water gayly.

Mynheer Vandunck.

JAMES HURDIS. 1763-1801.

Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed.1

The Village Curate.

1 To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb. - BRETON: Court

and Country (1618; reprint, p. 183).

SAMUEL ROGERS. 1763-1855.

Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale,
Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.

The Pleasures of Memory. Part ii. i.

She was good as she was fair,

None
As pure in thought as angels are:
To know her was to love her.1

none on earth above her!

Jacqueline. Stanza 1.

The good are better made by ill,
As odours crushed are sweeter still.2

A guardian angel o'er his life presiding,
Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.

Stanza 3.

Human Life.

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease
Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.
The soul of music slumbers in the shell
Till waked and kindled by the master's spell;

Ibid.

And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour
A thousand melodies unheard before!

Ibid.

Then never less alone than when alone.3

Ibid.

Those that he loved so long and sees no more,

Loved and still loves, not dead, but gone before,' He gathers round him.

Mine be a cot beside the hill;

A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear;

A willowy brook that turns a mill,

With many a fall, shall linger near.

1 See Burns, page 452.

Ibid.

A Wish.

None knew thee but to love thee. - HALLECK: On the Death of Drake. 2 See Bacon, page 165.

8 See Gibbon, page 430.

Numquam se minus otiosum esse, quam quum otiosus, nec minus solum, quam quum solus esset (He is never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when he is alone). — CICERO: De Officiis, liber iii. c. 1.

4 This is literally from Seneca, Epistola lxiii. 16. See Mathew Henry, page 283.

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That very law which moulds a tear
And bids it trickle from its source, -
That law preserves the earth a sphere,
And guides the planets in their course.

Go! you may call it madness, folly;

You shall not chase my gloom away!
There's such a charm in melancholy
I would not if I could be gay.

To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.1
Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it :
He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.

On a Tear.

To

Pæstum.

Epigram.

JOHN FERRIAR. 1764-1815.

The princeps copy, clad in blue and gold.

Illustrations of Sterne. Bibliomania. Line 6.

Now cheaply bought for thrice their weight in gold.

Line 65.

Torn from their destined page (unworthy meed
Of knightly counsel and heroic deed).

Line 121.

How pure the joy, when first my hands unfold
The small, rare volume, black with tarnished gold!

Line 137.

ANN RADCLIFFE. 1764–1823.

Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns,
And as the portal opens to receive me,

A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts
Tells of a nameless deed.2

1 See Waller, page 221.

2 These lines form the motto to Mrs. Radcliffe's novel, "The Mysteries of Udolpho," and are presumably of her own composition.

ROBERT HALL. 1764–1831.

His [Burke's] imperial fancy has laid all Nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation and every walk of art.

Apology for the Freedom of the Press.

He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.

Gregory's Life of Hall.

Call things by their right names. . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.1

Ibid.

THOMAS MORTON. 1764-1838.

What will Mrs. Grundy say?

Speed the Plough. Acti. Sc. 1.

Push on, keep moving.

A Cure for the Heartache. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.

Act v. Sc. 2.

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH. 1765–1832.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

Vindicia Gallica.

The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

Disciplined inaction.

Ibid.

Causes of the Revolution of 1688. Chap. vii.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

Dissertation on Ethical Philosophy. Remarks on Thomas Brown.

1 See Tourneur, page 34.

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He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin. DIOGENES LAERTIUS: Pythagoras, vi.

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